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...dazzling photographs and sprightly prose, Acting Hollywood Style probes how and why movie stars move us. The author dissects Hollywood acting through discussions of body language, voice and the landscape of the face -- how we read emotions into the luminous but blank gaze of Greta Garbo...
Underacting--a much rarer, although equally unsatisfying, fault as overacting--undercuts the potential energy of this production. Lithgow, whose impressive performances in Three Sisters and The Foreigner prove him to be talented, wears a blank expression for much of the play which is only interrupted in instances of rage or assault...
...Kurtzman for sure. For Maus specifically, I'd say Little Orphan Annie was really important, because of the kind of totemic quality of the drawings, the fact that... you can look deep into the blank eyes, find a sheet of paper and project an expression onto them. And that was kind of a part... of drawing Maus, having these kind of blank Maus heads to project onto...
Then again, many doctors and hospitals overtreat patients simply because they have a blank check to do so under many insurance programs. As much as 20% of all medical procedures and treatment is completely unnecessary, contends Dr. Robert Brook, director of health sciences for the Rand Corp. Cost of the waste: $132 billion a year. Aetna estimates that as much as 30% more ($198 billion) is discretionary care that may not solve the problem under treatment...
...bits I found difficult were actually the modern dialogue--I got a bit bored with that. I felt as if 'I've been here before.' I tried to make [the modern characters] more interesting." Byatt said that after a year of thinking about the blank verse, the writing came quickly. "The more odd, the easier...